MAR Regional Championship

E-mCD wins 2 awards at the Regional Championship and finish the season ranked 15 in the Mid Atlantic region.

Of the 99 teams in the Mid
Atlantic region, 56 were invited to the Regional Championships at Temple based on their performance at the district level.
We were one of only 3 Rookie teams to get an invitation.

Here is our robot driver Bill in
the pit with the robot.

On Friday, at the end of the
first 2 days of competition, we were in 7th place. We had 3
matches remaining on Sat. If we could manage to hold on to that position
we would be one of the 8 alliance captains for the elimination rounds.
This would guarantee our advancement to the elimination round.

On Sat we won 2 of our 3 matches
to finish 4th. We then invited teams 11 MORT, from Flanders, NJ and1403, Cougar Robotics from Skillman, NJ to join us for
an alliance for the elimination round.

We were knocked out in the first round.

At the award ceremony we
received 2 awards.

The Rookie High Seed Award given to the Rookie team
that performed the best.

There are several ways to earn a
invitation to the World Championship event in St. Louis. The winning
alliance, Special Award winners, and the top 5 ranked teams not already
attending are invited. When the final rankings were posted, we were ranked 15th overall and listed as
the 3rd alternate team to go to the World Championships. Only 1 of the top ranked teams
decided not to attend so our hopes to compete in St. Louis were dashed.

Finishing 4th after
the qualification rounds and 15 overall for the season are remarkable achievements. The students are
rightly proud of what accomplished. They have created a foundation for
future success.

Drive team member Leno was our
“Human Player”. His job was to inbound the basketballs on to the field
where our team could grab them before our opponents did.

Also. In case you missed
it, Kalya (our second driver) from
the team was featured in a story in today’s Daily News. Here is a link to
the electronic version.